Folks are short or tall,
Families big or small
Today's story is 'Eight Children and One Baby' by Leonore Klein illustrated by Michael Foreman.

An investigation of transport

With Richard Whitmore.
Reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad.

Weather

The people, the stories and the action behind the one commodity no one can do without - money.
The Money Minder, our up-to-the-minute news feature on the Stock Market, explores and explains the world of bulls, bears and boomlets.

[Starring] Janet Suzman as Charlotte Bronte

[Repeat]
(Janet Suzman is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Topical arts magazine
Introduced by David Jones

William Gerhardie is Alive and Well
Once called 'the pet of the intelligentsia and the darling of Mayfair,' adopted by Lord Beaverbrook as the white hope of English literature, William Gerhardie published the first of his many novels 50 years ago. Since then somehow he's got lost to view.
But today he's still writing - a vast unpublished tetralogy of novels - and tonight, from the flat he's been living in for 40 years, with curtains drawn day and night, surrounded by files and card indexes and the mementos of a childhood spent in Imperial Russia, William Gerhardie tells the story of his life.

How to Sculpt a Garden
Not a handbook for horticulturists, nor anything to do with decorative gnomes - but the sculpture of Iver Abrahams, who draws on the English garden for his inspiration.
His 'gardens' are now on view in a new West End gallery, and tonight he brings them to the studio.

(David Jones is a member of the RSC)

Adapted in nine parts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson from the novel by Gabriel Chevallier, told by Peter Ustinov, and starring Cyril Cusack, Roy Dotrice, Wendy Hiller and Catherine Rouvel.

A BBCtv co-production with Bavaria Atelier GMBH, Munich